Dan has served as lead counsel on a number of New York’s most high-profile construction, environmental and employment litigations.

Clients rely on Dan to find constructive solutions to very sensitive and complex disputes involving public and private companies, non profit organizations, municipalities, real estate developers and contractors, as well as individual professionals.

A founding member of the firm, Dan has tried over 40 cases to verdict in state and federal courts in New York and Connecticut.

Dan has been a featured speaker at a number of legal conferences and has over twenty five years of experience in civil litigation with established practice specialties including:

Another distinguishing factor and mainstay of Dan’s practice has been his strong advocacy of alternative dispute resolution options, especially mediation, as an important means of reducing the impact of litigation costs and helping clients identify acceptable areas for compromise both before and during litigation.

Dan is currently defending several lawsuits by building residents who claim to have been sickened by exposure to the Legionella bacteria, resulting in Legionnaires' Disease. Dan works with a team of highly experienced experts, who have conducted dozens of Legionnaires' Disease outbreak investigations throughout the United States and abroad.

Admissions

New York, 1985U.S. District Court Southern District of New YorkU.S. District Court Eastern District of New YorkU.S. District Court Northern District of New YorkU.S. District Court District of Connecticut

Published Works

Animal Rights and the Law, Oceana Publication Co., 1984

Obscenity and Pornography: The Law Under the First Amendment, Oceana Publication Co., 1984Civil Liberty and Civil Rights, Oceana Publication Co., 1986

Education

J.D., Pace University School of Law, White Plains, New York, 1984National Moot Court Team